I just installed homebrew on my wii today and backed up a few games disc from the originals, since the kids are rough on them, and now I am having trouble playing the backup copies. On a few games, the wii recognizes the game in the disc channel, but once you click it to begin playing, it goes to a black screen with white letters that says something to the effect of "Disc read error, please eject disc, etc...". On a few other games, it won't even recognize the game disc. Still plays original game disc without any trouble. I might need to change the type and brand of discs I am writing to. I am burning my .iso files to discs with IMGBURN program. Any ideas on what I need to check?

06-25-2011, 10:01 AM

Brian

Use Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden or Ritek G05 DVD-R media. Why not just USB load and save yourself the trouble of burning discs?

06-25-2011, 10:02 AM

JohnnyCSx

I'm pretty sure its because of the disk drive you have. The Wii uses dual layered disks, you need a dvd drive that supports it. Plus newer Wii firmwares don't support backup dvds, only isos on a usb drive

Ok, so I have a extra western digital mybook 500gb hdd laying around. I have cleared out all formating, added my files to the SD card and put it in the wii. Now when I boot up the wii with the hdd plugged in, it gets stuck at the USB Loader GX "Initializing USB Device" . If I turn off the wii, unplug the USB drive and boot up the wii without it plugged in and open up USB Loader GX and then plug it in, I get to the USB Loader GX splash screen, but then it gets stuck here on "Loading".

Any ideas?

06-25-2011, 04:16 PM

playerkp420

Use this guide to set up your hard drive. As for the discs not loading, they won't through the disc channel, you have to use a loader like NeoGamma.

06-26-2011, 05:25 AM

brad2157

Quote:

Originally Posted by playerkp420

Use this guide to set up your hard drive. As for the discs not loading, they won't through the disc channel, you have to use a loader like NeoGamma.

Thanks, I was able to get the game backup discs to be read from the wii :D

I haven't went through the guide yet to set up the hdd, but I will try that today and see if I can get it going. Sure sounds much easier than burning a lot of discs. Not to mention, the kids will still scratch them all up like the originals.